UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Employment Agency for Palestine Refugees) employees in the Palestinian Authority have taken over the agency's office complex located in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem and are not allowing management representatives to enter it due to disputes over employment conditions and wage increases, according to Palestinian sources.
The labor dispute between the UNRA management and the workers' union broke out about two months ago and gradually escalated. The workers demanded an increase in their wages as well as a change in the employment agreements of the clerks employed on a daily basis. They announced a series of protest measures, as part of which they even decided to prevent the representatives of the donor countries and UNRWA personnel abroad from visiting At UNRA institutions in Yosh.
About 20 UNRA workers broke into the agency's headquarters in Sheikh Jarrah, the entrance to the neighborhood, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The protest reached its peak in recent days after about 20 UNRA workers broke into the agency's headquarters in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
"The protesting workers barricade themselves in the place in a way that disrupts the work of UNRA.
They are holding the building and the entire UNRA headquarters in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem hostage, and are taking powers as if the building were their private property," the sources said.
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